If you find yourself in difficult circumstances. FIX IT. Don't expect everyone else to give you special treatment. I am not advocating denying someone help who is in need but it shouldn't become the new norm. If you get uprooted because of base closure or another situation that requires you to have to move then make your choice. Seek employment elsewhere or move. Don't stay where you are and then make your commute everyone else's problem. Don't commute in a way you show up too work unfit.